Monsoon downpours have caused flooding and landslides in Rohingya camps where almost one million people are living in bamboo and tarpaulin shelters after fleeing violence in Myanmar, reports UNB. Staff of the International Organisation for Migration  (IOM), the UN's migration agency, have been…

An unidentified man and a suspected criminal were killed in separate 'gunfights' in Rajshahi and Munshiganj districts early yesterday, reports UNB. In Rajshahi,an unidentified man was killed in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Nabadanga area of the city around…

The Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) will procure 300 double-decker buses from India under the neighbouring country’s second Line of Credit (LoC). Indian heavy vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland Limited will supply the double-decker buses at a cost of Tk. 239.06 crore to ease transport…

A powerful earthquake which struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok yesterday killed at least 14 people, injured scores and damaged thousands of…

Former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif, jailed earlier this month over graft charges, has fallen sick inside prison and is being moved to hospital, a minister said yesterday, reports AFP from Islamabad. Sharif and his daughter were jailed on July 13 after a graft court sentenced them to 10 and seven…

Arthur Jones is an avowed Nazi. John Fitzgerald says the Holocaust is a myth. Rick Tyler wants to "make America white again", reports AFP from Washington. Their fringe ideas are reminiscent of another age, but the unapologetic men who espouse them are all on US election ballots in 2018. Extremism…

A high-powered probe committee has been formed with a director general of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) as its head to look into the disappearance of coal from the Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL), reports UNB. PMO DG (Admin) Khalilur Rahman will lead the three-member probe panel…